Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 18:36:38 -0500
From: Jai Blade
Subject: Undone/Chapter 0
Warning: The characters that are used in this story are owned by Mutant
Enemy Production.
Author's Note: I was a long time Buffy fan...and felt that the way Season 8
ended was a good conclusion for the series, leaving in a logical spot for
Fray to pick up. Instead, Season 9 has started publication. To that end, I
thought of a way that could continue the series, and this is that story.
This chapter of the story contains no sex. This is just to a launching pad
for the story.
2240. Harth handed the dark woman the golden chalice.
"I remember fighting you. IN the dream, you hurt me. Not just
fighting--you're connected to someone I love. And that's the one, the
slayer of slayers. That's who I am in the dream. That's who's coming."
"Tonight." the woman responded, looking into the fluid of the
chalice. "The princess leaves her kingdom for the forest of now."
"I haven't asked why you want her here. Or why you want my sister
to find her." The smoke of the fluid began to swirl around her face.
"But you want to."
"Aren't they more of a threat to us combined?" She stepped outside
to the balcony and looked out over the landing pad. There were lurks
loading humans into various vehicles.
"Your schemes are ingenious. Keeping your force mobile, spreading
the beloved infection throughout Noram...You gnaw at the root of your
world. But there is nothing a slayer can not overcome."
"Then why call for another?"
"Vampires gain strength from each other. Slayers, ultimately,
don't. What happens in your time will cause your time to come."
"I..."
"Ripples, child. Everything is ripples." The dark woman walked
away with the chalice, leaving Harth alone.
"Everything is ripples." Harth repeated to himself. "What happens
in my time will cause my time to come." Harth rolled this idea over and
over in his head, while working hard to remember these events in his slayer
collective memory.
If this his how this should have always had played out, then this
slayer of slayers would have already come here, so he should already have
the memory. And then, suddenly, he did have the memory, and he knew what
he had to do.
Harth watched as Buffy and Melaka fought upon the rooftop. He knew
every move they would make before they made it. The dark woman stood close
by as well. She was waiting for her chance too, although the chances they
were waiting for were different, and both moments were coming.
Melaka landed a kick to Buffy's face, and then the portal appeared.
Buffy moved for it, Melaka tried to stop her, but then the dark woman
appeared. Harth moved closer.
"You know I"ll go through you," Buffy said calmly to the dark
woman.
"And you know you'll have to." Buffy looked crestfallen as the
dark woman said this.
"Why?"
"Maybe I think the 20th century can solider on just fine without
you." Hart was poised to strike now. He knew for his plan to work, Buffy
had to go through the portal, and once she passed through, the portal would
close. Harth had to pass through with Buffy.
"I'm cute and blonde and popular but I'm not stupid, Will. You
dragged me here and then told me how to get out. Everything, every lie, to
get us here. Why? What happened? Why does it have to be me?"
It's a long story," the dark woman replies, looking down. With a
tear, Buffy brought her scythe back, and Harth acted. Rushing across the
rooftop, he tackled both Buffy and the dark woman, pushing all three of
them through the portal, and onto New York penthouse patio.
The dark woman, being the first to recover, yanked Harth to his
feet.
"What have you done!" she yelled. Willow, who had been standing on
the patio, blindfolded prepared to pull Buffy through the portal, reached
up to uncover her eyes, but Buffy stopped her.
"Slayers, stop them....both!" Buffy commanded. Before anyone could
move towards Harth and the dark woman, they both vanished.
"What were you thinking?" the dark woman asked as she circled
Harth. They stood in a dark forest, the full moon riding high in the sky.
"Everything is ripples," Harth replies. "You should yourself, what
happened in my time would cause my time to come."
"This is no longer YOUR time! This is her time, their time. Your
time has yet to come."
"You lied to me. You lied to Melaka. You wanted THAT slayer there
and then for your own reasons."
"I wanted to die!" the dark woman screamed, her voice echoing
through the still night. "I have lived for over two hundred years. I have
been the most powerful woman, the most powerful person in the world. I
have lived through that power being ripped away from me by the actions of
my best friend. And then, after all that, learning that the same friend,
at the height of her power, is the only way I could die.
"I needed another slayer before I could call her. I planned my
death for a hundred and fifty years, and you ruined it in a single action.
How dare you!"
"We are creating new ripples," Harth replied after a few seconds.
"Everything that has happened to you, your experiences, they have yet to
be.
"I, on the other hand, am the one who will lead. I was to lead the
demons back to Earth, to lead the lurks out of the sewers, to lead the
humans to slaughter. I failed. Melaka destroyed the gateway. You were to
be my salvation, but you lied.
"So I led myself. I went to he rooftop, and when the time was
right, I led you to your past. All so, from this point, I can lead this
world to it's true destiny."
"Harth is dangerous, but that's not all, Will," Buffy said as she
helped Willow up. Dark Willow and Harth had just vanished form the patio."
"Who was that with him?" Kennedy questioned. "She looked a lot
like..."
"Willow," Buffy concluded. "It's Willow, dark, and from two
hundred years in the future." Buffy paused as this registered to her
Willow, her best friend. "Call Xander, Giles......, even Faith. Get our
leaders in one spot. Harth and Dark Will together puts Twilight to the
back burner. This is so much bigger than all of us now."
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